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M. OLUNE.

BED LOUNGE.

No. 394,957. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

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iJNTTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL (JLUNE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

BED-LOUNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,957, dated December 25, 1888.

Application filed June 6, 1888. Serial N0.,276,273. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be itknown that I, MICHAEL CLUNE, of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Lounges; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters refer to like parts.

My invention relates to the construction of bed-lounges; and it consists in providing means for connecting the head to the back by means of a holding deviceto relieve the strain upon the braces that support the back, and to unite the parts firmly together, and at the same time permit an easy disengagement when the upper part of the lounge is lifted up, and will be understood from the following description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a top view of a bed-lounge thrown open, showing the position of the parts of the locking device when they are not engaged. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig.3 is an end view of the parts when the lounge is folded up,

showing the parts of the locking device connected with each other. Fig. -'.L is a springcatch, a modification of the hook-and-pin device and intended for the same purpose.

In detail, f represents the lower part an d f the upper part of the frame of a folding bedlounge, hinged to each other at 1 and 2, 1 being the supporting-legs. The head h is connected with the part f. I) is the back, which in the usual construction is fastened to braces which extend up over the lower ends, fastened to the back of the frame f.

The drawings show the frame-work merely. It will be understood, of course, that these parts are upholstered before the lounge is ready for use.

\Yhen the lounge is open in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, it is ready for the bed. \Vhen it is folded up in the position shown in Fig 3, it is ready for use as a lounge or sofa, the mattress portion being inclosed in the open parts of the frames f f. lVhen in use, there is a good deal of strain upon the back Z), and the braces that support this only being fastened at the bottom, there is considerable leverage against them, causing the screws or nails that fasten these braces to become loose, and the back gives way from the lounge-frame. The fixed point of support, therefore, for the back isat the bottom of the brace, and of course the strain is increased the higher the back is from the point where it is secured to the frame. This is a serious defect in bed-lounges, and to obviate this I attach to the back 1), near the top, a pintle or hook, p, and upon the inside of the head I attach an eye, 6, so that when the lounge is thrown over, one part of the frame being folded upon the other, the eye will pass over and around the projecting end of the pintle, securely holding the back to the head at or near the highest point of the back, or where the strain is the greatest.

The fastening is preferably made in the form shown in the drawings, so that when the frame f falls down upon. the lower frame, f, the eye e will catch over the end of the pin p without any additional effort or handling by the operator. Instead of the pintle and eye a spring-catch, as shown in Fig. 4:, might be used to fasten the back at this point to the head, so that it would automatically catch and look into the corresponding part 3 but this would be the equivalent of my device, as my invention consists not in the mere form of the device, but in the manner of applying it to one part at or near the top of the back and to the other part at or near the top of themside of the head, so that the two parts will be locked and held together at that point where the strain is the greatest.

I am aware that bed-lounges have been constructed wherein the upper half of the folding section has been secured to the back at or near the lower end by means of a hook, the parts being locked together at that point; but in these cases the back is low and offers little, if any, support to the back of the person sitting upon the lounge. At that point, also, there is little or no strain, while at the opposite end, where the back is highest and no means are provided for securing it to the headpiece of the folding section, the leverage against the back is very great and it gives away at that point. Heretofore small cleats have been used to assist in bracing the back; but these areonly secured to the body part of the lounge at one end, and the strain upon these fastening-s is also very great. My invention is intended to overcome these objections and to provide a device by means of which the back can be secured at or near the highest point, where the strain is the greatest to the head-piece ot' the lounge, locking the )arts seeurel" to 'ether and )reventin the back from being forced off by any pressure ln'oug'ht to bear upon its wide part.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. A bed-lounge composed of two folding sections hinged together, the lower one having a back rigidly attached thereto, and a fastening for the same composed of two parts, one of which is fixed at or near the top of the inside of the head of the upper folding seetion, the other at or near the top of the back,

so that when the lounge is folded up the two parts will engage with each other, securing the head-rest of the frame to the hack, sullstaintially as shown and dos eribed.

2. A lj ed-loung'e comprisingthe folding see tionsff, hinged together as shown, the upper section having ahead, 71, to which is mimneeted an eye, e, the back I), fastened to the lower section and provided with a pin, 7), connected at or near its top for engaging with the eye 1; on the head, all mmhined suhsiantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of May, 18:48.

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